I feel for today's leaders. I really do. They got to where they are by doing a series of jobs exceptionally well. And that doesn't help them at all with the challenges they now face.

We fool ourselves into thinking that the spreadsheets that capture our financial projections are something different than what they are.

Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market.

Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.

I think the most important thing to do is to recognize the fundamentally different circumstances of pursuing growth.

People will try to copy what they can see, which is the final product or service, but it's much harder to see (and copy) all the intricacies of the business model that allows you to create, capture, and deliver value. And that's what you need to get right to really jam something down people's throats!

It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.